Interviews
Interview scripts feature interviews with two farmers or rural people and one or two subject-matter experts, exploring a challenge and possible solutions. They also feature and intro and extro by the radio show host. They are written by African journalists, based on real interviews.
Interview scripts can be translated and adapted as necessary to suit the local context, then performed on air as dramatized interviews. Or reach them as inspiration and guidance for your own interviews.
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Bushbabies are meat, too: Farmers in Malawi use indigenous plants to manage pests and livestock diseases
Part One: SIGNATURE TUNE UP AND HOLD UNDER NARRATOR. NARRATOR: Welcome to a special program on (name of radio station) titled Changa ndi nyamanso, or, “Bushbabies are meat, too,” a Malawian proverb that means that, just as bushbabies may be commonly overlooked but are still a useful source of protein, so can overlooked plant-based biochemicals…
Ethiopian farmers restore indigenous seed varieties
HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening). Today, we’re going to talk about how farmers in Ethiopia are restoring indigenous or local seeds that have been disappearing for years. SFX: SOUND OF CAR, THEN UNDER SPEAKERS HOST: It’s November, a spring season in Ethiopia. Our reporter, Netsanet Hailu, travelled to Oromia Region, Arsi zone, Hethosa district, Debeya…
Farmers in Ethiopia tend sorghum with care to improve their livelihoods
NETSANET HAILU:Good morning (afternoon, evening). Today, we’re going to talk about how farmers in Ethiopia care for their sorghum crop to improve their livelihoods. SFX: SOUND OF CAR DRIVING AND RAIN. FADE UNDER SPEAKER. NETSANET HAILU: I travelled to a village to talk to sorghum farmers. I drove for seven hours to get to…
The benefits of intercropping
INTERVIEWER: There are many good reasons for talking about intercropping on the radio. The first is that so many farmers practice intercropping. Intercropping is a traditional farming practice that goes back many hundreds of years. Modern agricultural scientists are carefully studying traditional methods and then adapting them to modern conditions. By doing this they…
Women farmers using conservation agriculture offer tips to increase yield
SIG TUNE: FADE IN, THEN FADE UNDER HOST HOST: Hello and welcome to your favourite farming program, Conservation Agriculture Today. (PAUSE) Women make a vital contribution to agriculture and to rural economies, contributing more than half of agricultural production in Africa. There has been a big increase in the number of small-scale women farmers who…
Local farmers find ways to scale-up conservation agriculture to larger areas
MUSIC:SIGTUNE, THEN FADE UNDER HOST HOST: Hello and welcome to our farming program on Radio ___. I will be your host today as we travel to Chihanga village in the central region of Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. Chihanga is one of the five villages in the city where farmers are using conservation agriculture.…
Three times the effort for ten times the yield: Growing tomatoes in Nigeria
HOST: Today we will be talking about tomato production in Nigeria. Tomatoes are a very important food crop for Nigerians, eaten in meals across the country. Almost every ethnic group in the country has a delicacy that requires tomatoes, and what some people consider the national dish—jollof rice—is almost impossible to make without tomatoes. However,…
Soil erosion and cropping on sloping land
Part A: Steep hillside land INTERVIEWER: Soil is a farmer’s most precious resource. Good soil is necessary for growing good crops. But if you farm on a hillside, rainwater can wash away your soil—and with it your livelihood. This is called soil erosion. In this script, we talk with an expert who advises farmers…
Honey is good food that bees give you at no cost
Part A: How to make a simple beehive HOST:Honey is a good food that many more people could be using. And they could be getting honey without any cost at all! That’s because there are honeybees almost everywhere in the world. And some of them could be working for you! Honey, of course, comes from…
Rehabilitating cocoa plantations
HOST: Hello, listeners. It’s another exciting week of farm broadcast, and today we will discuss a very important cash crop in Ghana—cocoa! My name is Nadia and I have here, Mr. Theophilus Osei Owusu, the deputy director at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, or MoFA. He will tell us all that he knows about…